Pintado: Lujanian, Uruguay

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Holochilus sp. Brandt 1835
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Rodentia - Echimyidae
Myocastor coypus (Molina 1782)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Cavia sp. Pallas 1766
    = Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris Linnaeus 1766
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
? Tremarctinae indet. Merriam and Stock 1925
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)
"Felis concolor"
Felis concolor Linnaeus 1771
Ubilla et al. 2009
Smilodon sp. Lund 1841
    = Smilodon populator Lund 1842
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cervidae
Morenelaphus brachyceros (Gervais and Ameghino 1880)
Paraceros fragilis (Ameghino 1888)
Ubilla et al. 2009
Antifer ultra (Ameghino 1888)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mammalia - Camelidae
Palaeolama paradoxa Cabrera 1935
? Lama sp. Cuvier 1800
Ubilla et al. 2009
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus neogeus (Lund 1840)
Ubilla et al. 2009
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869
    = Hippidion principale Lund 1846
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Proterotheriidae
Neolicaphrium recens Frenguelli 1921
Corona et al. 2019
MHD-P 509
Mammalia - Panameriungulata - Macraucheniidae
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Neothoracophorus sp. Ameghino 1889
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
"Pampatherium humboldti"
Mammalia - Cingulata
Neuryurus rudis (Gervais 1878)
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Propraopus sp. Ameghino 1881
Ubilla et al. 2009
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Lestodon armatus Gervais 1855
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Uruguay
Coordinates: 30.4° South, 56.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Lujanian
Age range of interval: 0.4 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 36100 ± 6200 YBP (other)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sopas
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: floodplain facies of meandering fluvial systems, date assumed to be between 11000 and 15000 AP
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),sieve
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Pintado-Urumbeba, Cuareim River; Piedra Pintada
Database number:71274
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion Enterer:K. Sears, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:1999-02-07 09:17:40 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-07 09:17:40
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
24014. M. Ubilla and M. T. Alberdi. 1990. Hippidion sp. (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) en Sedimentos del Pleistoceno Superior del Uruguay (Edad Mamifero Luganense). Estudios Geologia 46:453-464 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

73215 A. Corona, M. Ubilla, and D. Perea. 2019. New records and diet reconstruction using dental microwear analysis for Neolicaphrium recens Frenguelli, 1921 (Litopterna, Proterotheriidae). Andean Geology 46(1):153-167 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
24006 M. Ubilla. 1985. Mamiferos Fosiles, Geocronologia y Paleoecologia de la Fm. Sopas (Pleistoceno sup.) del Uruguay. Ameghiniana 22(3-4):185-196 [J. Alroy/K. Sears/J. Alroy]
73160 M. Ubilla, D. Perea, A. Rinderknecht and A. Corona. 2009. Pleistocene mammals from Uruguay: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic and environmental connotations. Quaternário do Rio Grande do Sul 217-230 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]